• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    These sort of liars make plenty of absurd claims and expect people to just believe them because they said so.

    The evidence of his actions are the only thing that really matters, and that evidence is pretty damning.

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    ā€œI can tell you, without going into things I’m not going to disclose, I’m very balanced, and everyone in the political arena knows it. And I’ll tell you what, I’m also not the village idiot.ā€

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      His parents were Marxist I think. His mom (a black woman) makes cool collage art with a progressive bent and is a civil rights activist. His dad was a German Jewish pediatrician and wrote a book on redlining, poverty and how lead poisoning was affecting communities and children.

      He was raised with at the very least a very progressive world view. So like, he knows more about being progressive than a lot of people and then chose to do what he does. That’s worse imo.

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      That’s Trump’s circle for you. They all honestly believe they’re the smartest people on the planet and the rest of us are just in their way.

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        Karp is so weird because he IS smarter than a lot of people. He’s incredibly intelligent but he’s evil lol

        He just doesn’t give a fuck about people.

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        They’re all narcissistic and a narcissist doesn’t even interact with reality much at all. They can’t handle reality, so they interact with their warped perception of reality and delusional projections instead. They surround themselves with people who reinforce those delusions. Once you criticize them or introduce some acknowledgement of reality (like the idea that they have flaws or aren’t the best person on earth) they make you their enemy.

        So they genuinely believe that if they proclaim something to be true, then it is.

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    Palantir helped commit a genocide to assist Israel in exterminating a population that they have had living under an illegal apartheid occupation because they are not ā€œethnically pureā€ enough to have rights under Alex karp’s leadership . He’s a facist

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    Someone made a Zuck meme where he did this exact thing… That user must be a Diviner, blessed by the holy meatball to nearly predict the right thing through the dankest of memes

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    I only believe it because I think Alex Karp is 17 people in a single body similar to Being John Malkovich and the progressive personality has been granted control for self preservation.

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    I could believe hes a leftist. Hes just like the leftists here wanting an authoritarian utopia where the government has total control and rules with an iron boot.

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      Its all authoritarian all the way down, thats not optional, the option is whether poor people get food. Being poor is also not optional, your job is too expensive and you’re being replaced by a machine.

      Have a nice existence.

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        Being poor is optional but its an assumed given that in any system some will be poor so you should account for that. authoritarian government boot doesnt solve that issue.

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          ā€œYou should account for that.ā€ Yes, that’s precisely the point. How are you accounting for the people you accept will inevitably be poor?

          You’ve read an endorsement of authoritarianism into a comment about how power operates regardless of who’s wielding it in the modern era. Having your livelihood dictated by whoever owns the machines doesn’t magically become freedom because they’re a private company. And telling people poverty is optional becomes a fairly empty answer when the work they’re supposed to escape it through is being automated.

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            You think youve got the answer but it suffers from exactly what i described.

            As for what accounting for poverty looks like I can list a number of liberal policy like income support for parents, job seekers, student’s disabled people. The only people who fall 9outside this are people who have no disability and choose not to work. They’re usually still supported.

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              Income support is precisely the sort of thing I mean by accounting for poverty. What part of that do you think I’m opposing?

              And ā€œchooses not to workā€ skips the issue I raised. Being able and willing to work doesn’t guarantee someone is willing to employ you, especially when they can automate the job. How do those people fit into your answer?